The fantasy of a religious leader heeding signs from the beyond.
It’s tempting to consider these before and after pictures: 1999 statue by Maurizio Cattelan.Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite 2009 new story.Po...
It’s tempting to consider these before and after pictures: 1999 statue by Maurizio Cattelan.Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite 2009 new story.Po...
Ha ha. Ha. Sigh. Kathleen Morse, a homemaker from Epping, N.H., described herself as a centrist-leaning independent, but this time she voted for anyone with an ...
Adam Fish: When choosing models for high-end catwalks, campaigns, and fashion magazines, I found that clients’ choices of models tended to be isomorphic. That i...
I’ve read a few comments today from liberals all too happy to piss on the Colbert Stewart Parade because it’s not political enough or not the right ...
A few weeks ago I wrote that there might not be a Tea Party if more Americans treated their elders with love and compassion. Tom Junod has written a lengthy ess...
Ryan Lizza’s recent account of the birth and death of the most promising U.S. response to global warming is by far one of the best written thrillers I hav...
Sean Wilentz in the New Yorker: “The current right-wing resurgence has more to do with the inner dynamics of American conservatism in the past half centur...
Last night, while dozing off to sleep, I had the rare pleasure of slipping in between states of consciousness, neither fully in nor out. I was thus able to obse...
About an hour into last night’s concert, three tall, broad shouldered guys walk into our aisle. They were dressed in fine sweaters and slacks, well-shaven...
In a short review of the new Chinese movie 1428, a reference to a macabre symbol of a massive cover-up: in 2009, the foundations of a concrete plant in Sichuan ...
Talking to my Dad about macroeconomic policy, it dawned on me that we will not have an appropriate response to the complex challenges of our global economy unti...
Perhaps if Americans treated their elders better the American elderly wouldn’t be so bitter. But when you alienate an entire community, they will eventual...
When you’re poor and you owe money, you might find yourself in this situation: On another call, Jimmy spoke with a man whose original debt was two hundred...
A few weeks ago I panned the movie Easy A as a teen drag performance and a bad one at that. Using teens and teen scenarios to tell adult stories is not inherent...
From the Wikipedia page for Wōden: Gregory claims that the Lombards demanded of 400 of their Christian prisoners to bow before the goat’s head in adoratio...
Emma Young: “When you look at the dreams of patients with PTSD, you see these nearly veridical ‘replays’ of the actual trauma event,” says Stickgold. This sort ...
Will Self: Men – and some women – watch football, dispute and debate football, and even occasionally kick a ball around, because it offers them a small-scale mo...
I have an anger problem. It’s not something I’m proud of and definitely one of the habits I’d like to break. The Democrats also have an anger ...
GQ revisits the making of GoodFellas: John Malkovich: It sort of came at a bad time in my life, when I wasn’t feeling well and didn’t want to think ...
Censored author, Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer, gets sassy: “While I do not agree with the edits [made to my book] in many ways,” Colonel Shaffer wrote, “the Defense ...